Bottle-soaking machine.



S. L. GOLDMAN.

BOTTLE SOAKING MACHINE. APPLIOATIOWIILLED FEB. 4, 190a.

'Patented May 4, 1909.

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SIGMUND L. GOLDMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AsSIGNOR TO E. GOLDMAN & 00.,INCL, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

' BOTTLE-SOAKING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1909.

Application filed February 4, 1908. Serial No. 414,183.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIGMUND L. GOLDMAN, a citizenof the United States,residing at Chicago, in the c-ountyof Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Soaking Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the class of a paratus forsoaking bottles to remove their fabels and cleanse them externally andinternally with the soaking water, and involving, as the generallystated construction, a water-holding tank containing avertically-traveling endless carrier onwhich takingplace at the oppositeare supported receptacles for holding the bottles, the apparatus ,beingadapted to be loaded at one side thereof and 1the discharge SIL e.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the apparatus by a view inside elevation; Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the same in centralcross-sectional elevation; Fig. 3, a

plan View of the driving worm-gear, but omitting the worm-wheels; Fig.4, a section on line A, Fig. 3, showing the worm-wheels Fig. 5, a brokenplan View of one of the similar bottle-crates; Fig. 6, a brokenface-view of the same; Fig. 7, a broken section on line B, Fig. 5, andFig. 8, a section on line C, Fig. 5; Figs. 9, 10, lLand 12 arediagrammatic views, each presenting an end of a bottlecrate, the figuressuccessively showing. the I crate 1n the position of approaching thegateopening cam, of engaging the cam to open the spring-closed gate, oftraveling along the carn-plate to maintain the gate open, and ofclearing the upper end of the cam-plate to permit closure of the gate;Fig. .13, a broken enlarged section on line D, Fig. 1, showing thepreferred construction of agitator for the water in the soaker-tank online E, Fig. 13; Fig. 15, asection on line F, Fig. 16, through thebottle receiving and rinsing trough and the adjustable guidechute whichleads thereto from the soaker;

Fig. 16, a broken section of the same taken on line G, Fig. 1 or Fig.1.5, and Fig. 17, a dia grammatic view in perspective showing inunassernbled relation the bottle chute and the means provided foradjusting its proximity, its height and its angle of inclinationrelative to the soaker-tank.

- The soaker-tank 18 is represented in rectangular shape and as havingon one end an overflow 19 near the top, a covered manhole Fig.'14, asection I 20 and an emptying outlet 21 near the bottom, and awater-circulating pipe 22 communicating atits ends, respectively, withthe 1 lower and upper parts of the tank and containing an ordinaryjetump indicated at 23, to which leads a va ved steamsupply pipe 24 fordriving the pump to circulate the water and for heating the water tomaintain it at the proper temperature.

l A trough 25, for receiving the bottles discharged from the soaker andrinsing them,

, 1S stably supported to extend from the front 1 or delivery side of thetank 18 and is shown to be provided in one end with an overflow 26 andan emptying outlet 27, and to contain,

[ for the purpose hereinafter explained, an

i open or grate-like false bottom (Figs. 15 and 16) shown to be formedof rectangular supports 28 having feet secured to the bottom of thetrough and affording bearings for the ends of spaced rods 29 extendingbetween them. Similar upright rigid frame-members 30, 31, flanged on vthe flanged tops of thetank-ends and afford bearings for partshereinafter described. On

gle-bars 32 affording guides for an oil-box formed as a singlecastinghaving the section 33 with the section 34 extending below it atone end and at a right-angle thereto, the two sectionsintercommunicating. In the base of the 3 and 4) carrying on one end theworm-wheel 37 in the box-section 34, the worm onthis shaft meshing witha worm-wheel 38 on an end of a shaft 39 journaled at one end in abearing 39" forming a part of the casting containing the oil-boxmembers, and at its opposite-end in a similar vertically adjust: ablebearing '39 (Fig. 2).

A worm-shaft 40 is journaled in hearings in the box-section angle to theshaft and mesh with the worm-wheel 37 thereon. .The shaft is thedrive-shaft and carries on its outer end sprocket-wheel 42. The verticaladjustment of the shaft 39 is'for taking up slack in the endless chains,hereinafter described, and is effected at each end by suitable meansshown at one end in Fig. 1 as a bolt 43 passing through the top-flangeof the frame-member 30,- the opposite threaded end of the bolt workingin the bearing of the shaft 39, whereby turning in'one direction or theother the upper ends, rise from the member 30 are the two similarvertical an section 33 is j ournaled a worm-shaft 35 .iFigs.

34to extend at a right-'- a. belt-pulley 4] and adjacent to the latter athe adjusting bolts will raise or lower the drive-shaft and,incidentally, the oil-box and worm-gears correspondingly.

An agitator-shaft 14 is journaled in suitable hearings on the ends ofthe tank (Figs. 13 and 1 t) and carries on one end a sprocketwheelhaving the short-chain connection 46 with the sprocket 4.2. The agitatorconiprises, as its preferred construction, brackets 47 bolted atintervals to the shaft 44 to ex tend transversely thereof, withpaddle-blades 48 ,extending parallel with the shaft at its oppositesides, but spaced therefrom and bolted, res ectively, to the oppositelyfacing surfaces 0' the brackets.

At the inner sides of the frame-members 30, 31 are secured on the shaft'39 like sprocket-wheels 49, and similar sprocket- Wheels, one of whichis indicated at 50 in Fig. 1, are correspondingly provided on a shaft 51journaled in suitable bearings on theopposite ends of the tank, thevertically alining members of each pair of these sprockets beingconnected by an endless chain 52. Extending at intervals between thesechains, which form an endless rackcarrier, and permanently fastened tothem, are the similar bottle-racks'53, the construction of whichformsthe principal feature of this invention. At the front or deliveryside of the machine there is secured, to extend vertically along theadjacent edge of each frame-member 30 and 31, a cam-plate 54 having itslower end deflected outwardly or forwardly at a right-angle to form acam 54, and its upper end inclined forwardly, as shown at 54", for thepurpose hereinafter explained. Other camplates 54 are provided to extendvertically along the rear edges of the frame-members at the loading sideof the machine and are like the camplates on the opposite side of themachine except that the cams 54 project rearwardly and are on the upperends of the bars and that the inclined end-sections 54 are lowermost andextend rearward 1, The construction of the ottle-rack, most clearlyindicated in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive, is

the following: Between two similar headforming end-plates 55, carryingperforated ears 55 through which they are rigidly bolted to the oppositechains 52, extend, suitably spaced apart and rigidly fastened to theheads and reinforced transversely by'the rods 56, similar partitions orshelves 57, of which three are shown containing 'alining 0 'enings 58 toadmit, for support on the s elves, the bodies of bottles to be soaked.At the rear side of the rack is provided the stop for the bottles, shownas a pair of par-- allel bars 59 extending between the heads 55, towhich they are fastened like the shelves, these bars being reinforced bytransverse rods 60 connecting them with the adjacent shelf. On theopposite or front sideof the rack is hingedly fastened at its lowercorners to the heads 55, to adapt it to open in an outward direction,the gate 61 consisting of a plate like the shelves 57 except that,instead of being provided with openings 58, it has formed in it, toregister with said openings, U-shapcdslots 62 extending transversely ofthe gate-plate from its free edge. Studs, each carrying anti-frictionrollers 63 on its protruding ends, roject transversely through the freeends of arms 64 pivotally supported on the opposite rack-heads andcarrying pins 65 at which they are connected by stiff coiled springs 66to the heads 55 at pins 67 projecting therefrom and the rollers 63 onthe inner ends of the studs work in rigid arch-shaped loo s 68 onopposite ends of the gate.

11 the trough 25, adjacent to the delivery side of the soaker, issupported the chute 69, the preferred construction of which is mostclearly illustrated in l-igs. 15 to 17, inclusive. The outer surface ofthe chute is provided at intervals, to register with the gate-slots 62,with longitudinal grooves 70 of V-"shape in. cross-section, for guidingthe bottles'as they are released from the soaker, in the mannerhereinafter described, into the rinsing trough, of] which the chute isadjustably supported; and each guide-groove terminates at its lower endin a deflected extension 71 of the chute base for checking the momentumof the bot-' tles in discharging into' the trough. To the flanges 72which extend from opposite sides of the trough at their upper edges aresecured the bearing-clips 73 containin the vertical slots 7 4, throughwhich pass vided on their threaded ends with wing-nuts 7 6, these boltsalso passing through openings 77 in the depending sections of anglelates78 rovided in their to -sections with on tu 1nal slots 79, exten ingparallel with ti e lateral edges of the chute, for the passage olts 75pro I the chute may be raised and lowered on the 1 clips 7 3, owing tothe slots therein, and may be tilted to any desired angle relative tothe delivery from the'soaker, becauseof the openings 77 in the angleplates 78, and tightening of the nuts fastens the chute in such adjustedosition, and by loosening the nuts 81 the c lute may, owing to theprovision 'of the slots 79 in the angle-plates, be moved lengthwisenearer to or farther fromthe soaker, to be fastened in such adjusted,position by tightening the nuts 81.

The machine operates as follows: With water in the tank andrinsing-trough, the circulating-pump 23 being in action and thedrum-shaft 40 in motion, the shaft 44 is rotated to actuate theagitator, and the wormgears are driven to slowly turn the shaft 39,

thereby causing the endless chains 52 and with them the racks to travelin the direction indicated by the arrow on Fig. 1. In this travel theate of each rack in succession is automatica lyopened, at the rear sideof the machine, to permit the rack to be filled with bottles to besoaked, and thereupon simi-' larly closed, while the gate of anotherrackis being opened at the opposite or delivery side of the machine topermit the 'rack to discharge its'load of soaked bottles tothe chute 69,whereupon the gate closes automatically to be again opened to admit afresh load of bottles to be soaked when the rack'reaches.

theloadingpositioa These operations are effected by engagement with thecam-plates of the rollers 63. Thus, when a rack attains,

at the delivery-side of the machine, the posi-' tion of that representedin Fig. orelative to the cam-plates 54, its gate is about to be opened.-The opening'begins when the rack attains the position represented inFig. 10, wherein the rollers 63 enga e the earns 54*, whereby in thecontinued. travel of the chains 52 the rollers are arrested relative tosuch travel, and thestoppage causes their engagement with the cams,under their confinement in the loops 68, against which they bear, toopen the gate against the resistance of the springs 66. The first openinof the gate takes place when the base of-t e rack has been broughtadjacent to the receivingend of the chute, toward which the gate, when 0en, inclines downwardly to afford a bridge eading to the chute. Thebottles in the rack, thus freed from the'retention exerted against theirshoulder-portions by the mar ins of the gate-slots, through which lattert e bottle-necks protrude, slide out of it,

across the bridging gate and down the guides 1 of the chute, at the endsof which their momentum is" checked or cushioned by the chute ends 71,which direct the bottles, (one of which is indicated by dotted lines inFig. 2) horizontally to float upon the surface of the water in thetrough 25. The depth of the water to the false bottom in the trough isless than the length of a bottle, so that the bottle, in filling withthe rinsing-water, cannot sink in upright position entirely below theWater-surface, but will assume, after floating for a time, an inclinedposition with .-one end resting on the false bottom and the other endprojecting above the water-level, where it is accessible forwithdrawalby the attendant without requiring immersion of his hand intothe water to grasp it, thereby facilitating the withdrawing operation.Any label or foreign matterthat separates from bottles in therinsing-trough will drop through the interstices in the false bottom andlodge on-the bottom of the trough, whence it may be readily removed whenthe trough is emptied of water through the o )cning 27. In the continuedtravel of the rac it clears bottles.

the inner rounded ends of the cams 54, in attaining the positionrepresented in Fig. 1.1 of riding the rollers along the straight backsof the cam-plates, which maintain the gate .open until, in attaining theposition re resented of therack in Fig. 12, the re lers reach theinclined upper ends 54 of the camplates 54, in riding along which therecoil force of the springs 66 is permitted to act to close the gate onits pivotal ends or hinges, thecomplete closure taking place'after therollers havecfleared theextremities of the ends 54 and have thus becomeentirely free from tho cam-plates to permit the remnant of recoil-forceof the springs to snap the gate shut, this condition being shown in thedotted representation in Fig. 12. When the rollers 63 on a rack-gateencounter the cams on tie upper ends of the rearcam-plates 54,

and clear the lower-inclined ends of the rearcam-plates, the gate willbe gradually closed by the recoil ofits controlling s ringsto-com finethe bottles'while beingl'soa ed and until they are released, asdescribed, atthe delivery-side of the machine.

- The slow travel of the chains 52, under the motion of the worm-gear,retains the bottles in the tank sufficiently long for'thoroughly soakingthem and removin from them most, if not all, of the labels, an theaction of the water is materially enhanced b the agitator, therelatively fast speed ofwhich throws the water more or less forciblyagainst the bottles in theracks, which, as will be observed, are open topermit the free circulation of the water through them for its fullaccess to the It should be mentioned in this connection that the racksoccupy-positions on the endless carrier in which they extend at an angleof about thirty-two degrees, and the bottles enter the soaking-water ata pitch with the necks extending upwardly, whereby they become filledwith the water, while they emerge from the water with the necksextending downwardly and discharge their contained water before-arrivingat the point of delivery.

Among the more important distinguishing any part of the machine or ofthe crates i of hot themselves to accommodate bottles of difi'ercntsizes. Moreover, the construction of crate adapts it to hold the bottlesloosely whereby they are free to reciprocate longitudinally in theirbearings between the stop :39 and gate under the action of the currents.in the soaking-water produced by the agitator, and this movement of thebottles supplements the cleaning action upon them of the water.

I Vhat I claim as new. and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. Incombination, a bottle-soaking-machine having a \i-ater-tank and atraveling carrier therein, with bottle-racks on the carrier, eachcomprising end-heads with a plurality of spaced partitions extendinglongitudinally between them and containing rows s-openings alining inseries transversely of the rack, a spring closed door hinged to the baseotthe front side of the rack, a stop for the bottle-bottoms on the rearside of the rack, means for automaticall opening said door asthe racksattain the de ivery point on the machine, a rinsingtrough supported atthe delivery side of the machine, and a bottle-chute leading from saidside to the trough and toward the reeeiving end of which the opened doorof the chine having a water tank and a traveling carrier therein, withbottle racks on the carrier, each comprising end-heads with a pluralit'of spaced partitions extending longitudina 1y between them andcontaining rows' of bottle-openings alining in series transversely ofthe rack, a door on the front side of the rack containing bottle-neckopenings coinciding with said alining series of openings,'meansforautomatically opening said doorsas the racks attain the deliverypoint on the machine, a rinsing trough supported at the delivery side ofsaid machine, and a bottle-chute leading from said side to the troughand toward the receiving end of which the opened door of the rackattaining said point extends as a bridge.

3. In combination, a bottle-soaking machine having a water tank and atravelingcarrier therein, with bottle racks on the carrier eachcomprising end-heads with spaced shelves exten ling longitudinallybetween them containing alining openings for supporting the bottles atdifferent points along their body portion, a stop on the rear side ofthe rack, a spring closed door hinged at the front side of the rack andcontaining slots for the bottle-necks alining with said openings andextending in the door from its free edge, means for automaticallyopening said door as the racks attain the delivery point on the machine,a rinsing trough supported at the delivery side of the machine, and abottle-chute leading from said side to the trough and toward thereceiving end of which the opened door of the rack attaining said pointextends as a bridge.

4. In a bottle-soaking machine, a bottle rack supported to traveltherein and comprising end-heads with spaced shelves 6X- tending betweenthem containing alining openings for supporting the bottles, a stopbarextending between the heads at the rear side of the rack, a gate atthelront side of the rack hinged at its ends to said heads near theirbases and containing slots for the bottle-necks alining with saidopenings, .loops on the ends of the gate, arms pivotally supported onJhegate-ends and carrying antifriction rollers extending through saidloops, springs connecting said arms to the rackends, and cams. in thepaths of said rollers for opening the gate against the resistance ofsaid s rings.

' v 5. n a bottle-soaking machine, the combination with a water-tankhaving a frame on its top, of sprockets journaled on said frame and inthe tank to form vertically alining members, endless chains connectingsaid members, a drive-shaft geared to said sprockets, and bottle-racksextending at intervals between and permanently connected with saidchains, each rack being open to the free circulation through it of thesoaking-water and. having a spring-closed gate containing slots for thebottle-necks hinged upon it to open in the direction contrary to that ofthe travel of the rack and form a bridge when open, confinedanti-friction rollers exten'ylin from the gate-ends, and camlatesonesaic frame in the paths of said ro lers and each having a cam on oneend and an outwardly inclined opposite end.

6. In combination, abottle-soaking machine having a water-tank and anendless traveling carrier therein, with bottle-racks on the carrier eachhaving a bottle-confining spring-closed door hinged at the base of therack and containing slots for the bottlenecks, means for automaticallyopening said doors as the racks attain the delivery-point on themachine, a rinsing-trough supported at the delivery-side of saidmachine, and a bottle-chute leading from said side to the trough andtoward the receiving-end of which the opened door of the rack attainingsaid point extends as a bridge.

SIGMUND L. GOLDMAN.

